Local GTX 480 pricing - ouch

Price performance fail, I've always been a nvidia'n but the performance increase compared to my gtx280 R7K just aint worth it
 
What did people expect? All Nvidia cards are released at roughly this price point. Eventually it will go down
 
I would go for the ATI in a heartbeat if they could incorporate some sort of PhysX support, but they can't. Nvidia still has the slight edge on them with that. The benchmarks and reviews I've seen on these new cards are not that impressive and the dual-GPU ATI card is putting up a helluva fight, in same cases even winning. Time will tell what's going to happen with these new Nvidia cards. There has to be a 512 core card at some point as well....which means the GTX 480 may not be the top-of-the-line card everything thinks it is.

My personal comments is to not purchase one of these cards now. Give it 6 months. There are too many vague plots in the pipeline to spend this much money on these cards now.
 
The funny thing is ATI were the ones who touted Physx and were going to deploy it etc... 7 years later where is it?
 
I don't have physics or whatever on my 5870 and do i miss it? Urm NO!!!

Had a GTX285 before my 5870's and maybe i am too old to see a difference but physics is a marketing ploy lie Ati's eyefinity. Not talking about all the physics demo's etc. Real world gaming eyecandy and performance.....
 
StefKruger said:
Surely someone is getting conned...
R3000 more than a HD5870. For what? An extra 5-10% performance.

Right.
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The suppliers always spins the same story:

"Due to the low volume availability, pricing will be higher. We can't import enough to reduce the cost. Shipping is expensive, insurance is expensive, blah blah blah..." What they mean to say: " If you want the new stuff, pay for it my dear sucker"
 
The new benches going around have been showing that yes, the GTX 480 is the faster card (as we all suspected), but for an extra 3k-3.5k your only going to be seeing 1-15% performance advantage depending on the game. I'm an enthusiast, not biased to NVidia or ATI (a big part of the reason I liked getting a mobo that supports Crossfire and SLI), but I couldn't even justify paying almost double for such a small performance benefit. If your looking for a card in that price range, get a 5970.
 
If you think about it, there's absolutely NO reason to get upset about the pricing. Computer components have always been like this and probably always will be. The only people who pay the premium are the early-adopters. It's a known fact that if you give these cards a couple of months, preferably a year, then you will pick them up for almost half the price.

So yeah. They are priced high now. But to be honest, if you bought high-end cards in the last 2 years, you really don't need to buy these cards now. Unless you really want to (Like I want to buy that new i7 980X CPU), but then you really don't have reason to complain.
 
Neo said:
If you think about it, there's absolutely NO reason to get upset about the pricing. Computer components have always been like this and probably always will be.
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I missed the part where that is not a reason to get upset. If we follow that status quo logic through: The earth would be flat, computers would have 640KB of RAM and the USA would be the fifth British "home country". ;)

Anyway. Back on topic. I hope ATI has lots of stock on the 5870... :)
 
i payed roughly R7500 for my GTX295 when it got released, and if i had waited i would have got it cheaper i know that now. But i bought it cause i got 7200 for my GTX280 a week before the release of the GTX295 made alot of sense at the time. So R7700 price point is quite normal for a new nVidia GPU, and i saw by the article is based on the ASUS brand which falls in line with the more expensive line of cards. If i recall correctly.. Anyway if you want it cheaper wait for the Zotac, BFG, MSI, EVGA, POWERCOLOUR, inno3D versions of the card you will save a good few pennies.
 
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